What's the most pretentious book you've ever read?

do all fedoras suffer from dunning-kruger or something?

Hesse is good for this

Sauce on pic. Looks neat.

Your diary, desu

"How to Read and Why" by Harold Bloom.

>search image on google

I was going to say Demian

>trying too hard

Translation: I'm fucking retarded

Hey don't you lump Hitch and Dawq together, Hitch is a god.

>Hey guys check out this brutal HITCHSLAP

Should've said it looks MEAT

>Only watched his youtube videos.

>book full of gibberish
>not pretentious

>HURRR
>Look at me mommy ima critic

i was tricked by this post-modern meme

around here we just accept it was a work of genius that we will never be well read enough to comprehend

>stick together random words from random languages
>hurr im profound

>hurr im profound
You're getting closer anyway.

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You sound like a person who's desperately trying to fit in. Read some of his essays. The later ones he wrote on his own mortality for VF are fantastic.

There's nothing pretentious about Sagan. He was just an astronomer who liked to educate people and almost never addressed religion.

>You're in the wrong neighbourhood motherfucker

We all were, user

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Fear and Trembling

Or he's just a fucking idiot.

>fuck Sagan

Pretty pretentious imo

Good suggestions, I'd also add the Bhagavad Gita

Meditations

Yup

yes but I excel at it.

I generally like Bloom, but this is true.

I'd have to say Name of the Wind (a neckbeard who has delusions of literary grandure, but is actually just jerking off).
Also, every part of Nee-Chan's aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil.

Which brings me to fucking Reich

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